Located in the Rialto market area, in the beating heart of Venice, the Ristorante Antico Dolo is part of a fifteenth-century building where, at the time of the Serenissima, there was a famous house of tolerance. In 1434 a bàcaro, an ancient Venetian term that still identifies the typical taverns scattered among the calli and wrinkles of the lagoon city, was opened here to “refresh” customers exhausted by the performances just consumed on the upper floors. Taken over in 1989 by Bruno Ruffini and his family, it still offers what for centuries was the real speciality of the house: the trippa rissa (different types of offal boiled according to an antique recipe), now as then accompanied by dry white wine from nearby Dolo, a stunning town in the Riviera del Brenta.